Maritza M. Branker

Department of Mathematics
Niagara University
Email: mbranker@niagara.edu

Office: Dunleavy 336
Phone: 716 286-8197

Research

I work in the area of pluripotential theory, which is potential theory of several complex variables. I completed my doctorate under the supervision of Professor Thomas Bloom at the University of Toronto. My thesis problem was a generalized Weierstrass problem,inspired by Weierstrass's classical result concerning uniform approximation by polynomials. For the generalized Weierstrass problem we consider approximating continuous functions by weighted polynomials. Results were obtained on certain real multivariable compact sets which were considered as a subset of complex n-dimensional space. I continue to focus my attention on approximation problems which are amenable to potential theoretic techniques.

Teaching

For the fall 2007 semester I will be teaching MAT451 (both sections) and MAT221.

Office Hours

Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12.15-1.15pm, 2.30-3.30pm

Publications

Weighted Approximation in R^n,Doctoral Thesis, University of Toronto, November 2004
Approximation by weighted polynomials in R^k, Annales Polonici Mathematici 85(2005),261-279.

Mathematical Links

Canadian Math Society
American Math Society
ArXiv
Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Fields Institute
U.W.O. Math Department